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title: “But,” she said, “the mere knowledge of my abode by the sultan would… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “But,” she said, “the mere knowledge of my abode by the sultan would not so trouble you. Who acts: fairy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 20

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“But,” she said, “the mere knowledge of my abode by the sultan would not so trouble you.

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**Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:14:20
# text = “But,” she said, “the mere knowledge of my abode by the sultan would not so trouble you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fairy |  |  |  |  | the mere knowledge of my abode by the sultan  you *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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